Sophomore Year
Sophomore year brings a new experience of excitement. You are returning to campus with established friends, a clearer view toward a major and have matured out of first year experimentation.
Common Issues of Sophomore Students:
- Building your resume.
- Establishing a major.
- Deciding whether or not to study abroad.
- Encountering an occasional slump as senior year still seems to be away in the distance.
- Experience greater pressure to party off campus and the expectation to drink.
Helpful Hints:
- Although senior year seems a long way off, the resume has to start now! If you have put off getting involved in activities, clubs and volunteer experiences get involved now.
- Visit your academic advisor or the Career Center if you have not established a major.
- Visit International Studies and look into overseas experiences.
- If you get in a slump, recognize it, and take yourself out of it. Time really goes a lot faster than you think. (Adapt to that sluggishness with physical activity; add some culture to your life, attend concerts, plays, etc.)
- Remember that the majority of sophomores have matured out of the need to abuse and binge drink. Typically there is a real split with sophomores: most move on and decide they are over the need to get drunk, though others will remain enmeshed in abusive drinking habits.
- Know that violations of the alcohol policy can result in losing opportunities to go abroad, into the Peace Corps, medical and law school and internships. No one is immune to this unless you are a non-drinker.